“…Soft computing approaches have become the de facto approach for agricultural robotics as they have been found to be able to handle dynamic conditions reliably (Y. Huang et al, ). They have been utilised for a wide range of agricultural tasks: harvesting, yield estimation, weed‐spraying, pollination, and crop management (Bargoti & Underwood, a, b; Dias, Tabb, & Medeiros, ; Kurosaki et al, ; Nachtigall, Araujo, & Nachtigall, ; Sa et al, ; Wan, Toudeshki, Tan, & Ehsani, ; Wang, Song, & He, ; Zhang et al, ). Detection of apples (Bargoti & Underwood, b; Dias et al, ; Inthiyaz, Kishore, & Madhav, ; Moallem, Serajoddin, & Pourghassem, ; Prasad et al, ; Puttemans, Vanbrabant, Tits, & Goedemé, ; Soleimani Pour, Chegini, Zarafshan, & Massah, ) and strawberries (Habaragamuwa et al, ; Puttemans et al, ) has shown good results with detection rates up to 90% of the fruit under real‐world orchard conditions.…”